God Is So Great - Can we Understand Him?

Though we believers are commanded to love the Lord with all our mind, God is so great, there is a limit to how much we can understand.

A. W. Tozer:
God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "O Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.
A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God, p. 68

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Deut 6:5
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Matt 22:37
And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’”

Job 5:9
Who does great and unsearchable things, Wonders without number.

Job 26:36
“Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him; The number of His years is unsearchable.

Ps 145:3
Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised, And His greatness is unsearchable.

Romans 11:33-36
Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor? Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to him again? For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.

Psalm 139:6
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is too high, I cannot attain to it.

Isaiah 55:8-9
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.

Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding.

1 Corintians 2:10-13
For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

Ephesians 3:18-19
may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

Job 37:5
“God thunders with His voice wondrously, Doing great things which we cannot comprehend.

Ernie Haase:
If I could understand everything that He was doing, that wouldn’t be a God I would want to serve.
[Ernie Haase and Signature Sound, FaceBook, April 17, 2020, 7:30m, accessed May 19, 2020]

Tim Tebow:
If we can understand everything about the God we serve, what kind of god would that be?
(Tim Tebow, A. J. Gregory: Shaken: Discovering Your True Identity In the Midst of Life’s Storms; Crown, 2018, p. 42)

Dwight Lyman Moody:
If everybody could understand everything the Bible said, it wouldn't be God's book ...
(Dwight Lyman Moody: The New Sermons of Dwight Moody, 1880, p. 190, Google Books, accessed May 19, 2020)

Ecclesiastes 8:16-17
When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the task which has been done on the earth (even though one should never sleep day or night), and I saw every work of God, I concluded that man cannot discover the work which has been done under the sun. Even though man should seek laboriously, he will not discover; and though the wise man should say, “I know,” he cannot discover.

[Imagine, the one man who had been gifted with the greatest wisdom finds out there is a limit to his knowledge, even after much work and thought].